- Joined
- Apr 15, 2007
- Messages
- 577
Hi. i feel like a moron not having resources to look this up on my own first. i don't know if this is covered in the Tarantula Keeper's Guide as my copy won't arrive from Amazon until Wed or Thur.
i just acquired a beautiful 4" B. smithi. i was just tending to all my T's; food, water, checking on them, etc. My smithi grabbed one of two crickets as fast as they hit the ground. While it was eating i noticed a rather large drop of red liquid near the first proximal joint on it's 4th (?) right leg. i also noticed the next joint almost looked as though it is cracked and has this red liquid in the joint. Upon further inspection i found even more of this red in the crevices on the ventral surface of the cephalothorax. i realize this isn't blood but what the heck could it be. i just received and set up this T yesterday. It is in a new KK, only peat for substrate, a flower pot for hide and a water dish - that's it. There is enough substrate in the KK that there is really no fall to be had. Right now it is chowing down on crickets so i'm thinking its not sick.
i'm kind of stressed because this is a great T. i was able to get pics but have to figure out how to post them first. i don't know how to make the pic file smaller and i think that will be a problem.
Any suggestions???? Thanks.
i just acquired a beautiful 4" B. smithi. i was just tending to all my T's; food, water, checking on them, etc. My smithi grabbed one of two crickets as fast as they hit the ground. While it was eating i noticed a rather large drop of red liquid near the first proximal joint on it's 4th (?) right leg. i also noticed the next joint almost looked as though it is cracked and has this red liquid in the joint. Upon further inspection i found even more of this red in the crevices on the ventral surface of the cephalothorax. i realize this isn't blood but what the heck could it be. i just received and set up this T yesterday. It is in a new KK, only peat for substrate, a flower pot for hide and a water dish - that's it. There is enough substrate in the KK that there is really no fall to be had. Right now it is chowing down on crickets so i'm thinking its not sick.
i'm kind of stressed because this is a great T. i was able to get pics but have to figure out how to post them first. i don't know how to make the pic file smaller and i think that will be a problem.
Any suggestions???? Thanks.